Henderson Daily Dispatch

N. C. State Alumni Wait Board's Act
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commendation was signed by every member of the committee, the engineering school will be located in the State College unit and there will no longer be an engineering school in the Chapel Hill unit. President Frank Porter Graham of the Consolidated University, and an alumnus of the Chapel Hill unit. also approved the committee and has recommended that the recommendations of the special committee engineering school be located in the State College unit. And if the executive committee likewise approves the findings of the special committee. it is regarded as certain the entire board of trustees of the Consolidated University will definitely specify that the engineering school shall be in the State College unit.
But if the executive committee should fail to follow the recommendations of the special committee on consolidation and of President Graham and recommend that the engineering school be removed to Chapel Hill, or that two separate engineering schools be retained, as at present. a bitter meeting of the board of trustees. For fight is expected to break out in the board. though decidedly In the minority, the State College members of the board are loaded for bear if the executive committee should rule against them and are prepared to put up a bitter fight. They are determined the small group of Chapel Hill professors and alumni who are in favor of the Chapel Hill unit absorbing most of the other units, in direct contravention of the consolidation plan. shall not be allowed to forestall the consolidation as originally intended. and thus wreck the other units.
It has been reliably learned here that in the meeting of the executive committee several days ago, which ended in confusion and without any vote being taken. that John.Sprunt Hill, of Durham, declared that there will be a school of engineering at Chapel Hill even if it has to be endowed" and that at another time he shook his finger in President Graham's face and said that if the engineering school was moved to State College he would fight it through "every court in the land." It is also understood that since that meeting. Charles Whedbee, of Hertford, and Mrs. L. W. Cone, of Greensboro members of the special consolidation committee who signed the report recommending the location of the engineering school at State College, are wavering and on the verge of lining up with the Hill-MurphyChapel Hill-at-any-price group that want to either transfer the engineering school there or else continue to have two engineering schools.
But if this small group who are opposed to following the recommendations of the special committee and of President Graham, try to steam-roller the entire board of trustees in the meeting Tuesday afternoon. there will be plenty of fireworks from the State College members of the board. Indications also are that a large number of the Carolina members of the board are lining up solidly with the State College members in their contention that the engineering school should be left at State College and that there is no excuse for maintaining miniature largely theoretical engineering school at Chapel Hill.
It is pointed out here that State College has already given up its school of science and business and its graduate school to the Chape! Hill units, also that its school of education and its formerly independent extension department have been completely subordinated to these departments at Chapel Hill. Now, if the engineering school should be transferred to Chapel Hill. about the only thing that would be left at State College would be the school of agriculture, Many think the only reason the Chapel Hill unit does not want this school there is that it does not want farmers or farmer's sons there in its highly cultured and classical atmosphere.
At Chapel Hill only 10 per cent of the student body are in the school of engineering. while at State 670 students, or 37 per cent of the student body are in the engineering school. Last year Chapel Hill graduated only 20 students in engineering and State graduated 112 students. This year is graduating 110 with engineering degrees.
The number of graduates from the Chapel Hill school of engineering has steadily decreased from 38 in 1930 to only 20 in 1934, while the graduates from the State College engineering school have increased from 94 in 1930 to 112 in 1934 and to 110 in 1935.
At Chapel Hill last year, only one student out of eleven that enrolled in the school of engineering graduated. while at State College, one fifth of the entire enrollment in the engineering school took the entire four years course and graduated.
The most outstanding technical schools in the United States are not located on the same campus with liberal arts colleges or in a liberal arts atmosphere.
The budget expenditure per graduate in the Chapel Hill engineering school has increased since the con- solidation from $1,441 each in 1930 to $1,862 each in 1934 while the per graduate cost in the State College en- gineering school has decreased from $1,346 each in 1930 to only $749 each in 1934.
Chapel Hill has had an engineering school only since 1922, while the State College school was establishedin 1889.